Doodle4Google

I discovered the Doodle4Google competition last year and with the help of our wonderful art teacher, Mrs. Coffman, we got the ball rolling with 15 participants.  Even though we had made announcements about the competition and the deadline, I got a LOT of students who cam up to me after the deadline asking if they could still participate.  So I was pretty sure I would do this again.

This year I was even more determined to get the word out about the competition.  I know this has nothing to do with technology, but I can't help that I want students to be creative!  This is a great little competition and this year we had 32 participants and some great entries!  If you've never heard of this before, each school is allowed to send 6 entries to Google.  Students are to re-create the Google logo based on that year's theme.  This year, the theme was, "If I Could Anything, I Would...".

At our school, we have chosen to vote for the top six doodles and this year another teacher asked about doing honorable mentions, which I was all for!  Take a look at our winning entries and honorable mentions:



A post on Mr. C's Class Blog alerted me that the regional competitions have taken place and voting for the national winner is upon us!  Sadly, none of our entries made it past regionals.  However, a student at Thornburg Middle, Ryan Watson, from our neighboring county, Spotsylvania, made it in!  Way to go!  Go vote for Ryan here!